The
BioWare Blog announces that today is the tenth anniversary of Star Wars:
Knights of the Old Republic, the cortically acclaimed role-playing game.
They celebrate the occasion with some wallpapers and reminiscences about the
project from some of its developers. There's also word about this on the
Star Wars: The
Old Republic website and they also have
a developer blog
detailing KOTOR's influence on the MMORPG.

CrushBug wrote on Jul 15, 2013, 20:02:For me, I had just finished my first game at BioWare, MDK2 PC. I was a Line Producer, an entry-level position, recently created at BioWare. The then-Lead Programmer, Cam, called me into his office to tell me some news that most of the company didn't know yet. He said:

"We just got a license to do a new game. What is your favorite movie?""Star Wars," I answered quickly."We are doing a Star Wars game.""Get the @#%& out of here!"

What a ride...

Great game, wonderfully executed. Its too bad that Bioware never reached those heights again (Dragon Age came close though). I hope your studio recovers some of its mojo and starts making quality RPGs once again (not holding my breath though). Best of luck to you regardless.

I'd say DA:Origins was at that point. Doubtful they can ever get there again however what with their decisions to remove role playing choices from their RPG's. Be it little or no equipment customizations, or "story choices" that ultimately play out the same way regardless of your choices.

Bioware doesn't make deep RPG's anymore, they make action games with big set pieces ala COD with very little character progression.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jul 16, 2013, 03:36:A spontaneous collapsed lung sounds like the damned most scary thing I ever heard. Way to give a fellow nightmares... glad you are ok now though. *takes a deep breath with phone nearby*

Ha, it is actually far more common than you would think. I had never heard of it until it happened to me, but the doctors had seen it quite a lot. But thank you for the kind words.

CrushBug wrote on Jul 15, 2013, 20:02:For me, I had just finished my first game at BioWare, MDK2 PC. I was a Line Producer, an entry-level position, recently created at BioWare. The then-Lead Programmer, Cam, called me into his office to tell me some news that most of the company didn't know yet. He said:

"We just got a license to do a new game. What is your favorite movie?""Star Wars," I answered quickly."We are doing a Star Wars game.""Get the @#%& out of here!"

CrushBug wrote on Jul 15, 2013, 20:02:For me, I had just finished my first game at BioWare, MDK2 PC. I was a Line Producer, an entry-level position, recently created at BioWare. The then-Lead Programmer, Cam, called me into his office to tell me some news that most of the company didn't know yet. He said:

"We just got a license to do a new game. What is your favorite movie?""Star Wars," I answered quickly."We are doing a Star Wars game.""Get the @#%& out of here!"

What a ride...

Great game, wonderfully executed. Its too bad that Bioware never reached those heights again (Dragon Age came close though). I hope your studio recovers some of its mojo and starts making quality RPGs once again (not holding my breath though). Best of luck to you regardless.

Not just an utterly terrible WoW clone but an utterly terrible PAY TO WIN game to boot... played TOR enough to see the underlying problems and regret it.

Thanks to TOR Bioware has literally ruined any chance in hell of us ever getting Kotor 3 as well... because Disney sure as hell ain't going to do it. And even if, then it will have nothing of the content and mature story that Kotor had.

fujiJuice wrote on Jul 15, 2013, 22:57:My fond memories of this game include playing on my xbox in my room, with a tremendous pain in my chest. On the insistence of my mother, I went to the doctor the next morning to find out I was walking around with a spontaneously collapsed lung. Needless to say I was rushed to the ER and spent a week in the hospital. Way to go KOTOR!

That twist near the end is pretty big, but I'd never heard of it collapsing a lung before.

Creston

It took my breath away

I know you are joking, but I was in the middle somewhere. If you showed me a video of the whole game I could tell you exactly where, that is how much that night stuck in my memory. I actually didn't finish it until many months later, but yeah great ending.

fujiJuice wrote on Jul 15, 2013, 22:57:My fond memories of this game include playing on my xbox in my room, with a tremendous pain in my chest. On the insistence of my mother, I went to the doctor the next morning to find out I was walking around with a spontaneously collapsed lung. Needless to say I was rushed to the ER and spent a week in the hospital. Way to go KOTOR!

That twist near the end is pretty big, but I'd never heard of it collapsing a lung before.

My fond memories of this game include playing on my xbox in my room, with a tremendous pain in my chest. On the insistence of my mother, I went to the doctor the next morning to find out I was walking around with a spontaneously collapsed lung. Needless to say I was rushed to the ER and spent a week in the hospital. Way to go KOTOR!

Such a great game. We should have had long since seen KOTOR 3 by now, but they decided to make an utterly terrible World of Warcraft clone with a Star Wars wrapper on it instead. Compared to KOTOR, Star Wars The Old Republic is complete shit in every possible way.

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